Yoshino from Date A Live, in addition to being An Ice Person, is extremely shy and soft-spoken. She deals with this by communicating through her hand puppet 'Yoshinon' whenever the situation calls for a more extroverted approach.

For a male example, Ichijouji Ken of Digimon Adventure 02 fits - the boy genius becomes rather shy some time after his Heel–Face Turn. He gets better about this later, if the image songs and drama CDs are any indication.

Yukino also fits this profile. Shy? Check. Intelligent? Check. Water powers? One of her Celestial Spirits is Pisces, the Fish. Blue hair? Check, though it is a much lighter shade of blue than Levy, Juvia, and Wendy.

Yuki, plays this trope very straight in the movie Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya. Her normal personality is more debatable. Though seemingly an Emotionless Girl, she has started showing some signs of emotion, including social awkwardness. Although some people claim her hair is a pale gray, it can also be seen as pale blue.

In comparison, Asakura Ryoko has the hair and eyes, but her personality does not fit any of the traits above. Given that she, like Yuki, is an Artificial Human, perhaps this was an intentional contrast?

The spinoff series The Vanishing of Nagato Yuki-chan, being set in the Disappearance verse, also plays this very straight. Maybe even moreso, because we get to see more of Nagato's shyness firsthand.

Brought up in the company of adults ever since he was young, Touya Akira from Hikaru no Go tends to be somewhat awkward and shy around peers his own age. Although his hair is green in the anime adaptation, the manga colouration tends toward a dark blue tint.

Sara from Jewelpet Twinkle has blue hair and is aloof and introverted, but is not really shy; she is, in fact, quite the snarker.

Chrome Dokuro from Katekyo Hitman Reborn!. Though she shares her body with a man who is more psycho than shy....

Due to an Adaptation Dye-Job, this is inverted with Yue Ayase in Mahou Sensei Negima!. Starting out in the manga, she has blue hair with a cynical personality obsessed with philosophy, but eventually moves farther towards shy once she begins getting closer to Negi and her hair is changed to purple.

Nodoka Miyazaki in Negima!? gets blue hair (as opposed to the other series where she is a literal Shrinking Violet) and is really shy, a bookworm, and thinks with her head.

Beginner from Mon Colle Knights has the blue hair and every opposite personality trait: extroverted, cheery, overly-relaxed in crisis situations, and the least intelligent member of the recurring cast. She can employ three out of the four cardinal elements, water being the exception.

Akira Sakura from Naru Taru is about as shy as this trope can get, to the point of suicidal Deconstruction. It turns out that she is shy and nervous because of sexual abuse at the hands of her father combined with a crippling social phobia.

Hinata Hyuuga of Naruto has blue hair, is terribly shy and lacks confidence. She gets better by the end of the manga.

Rei Ayanami from Neon Genesis Evangelion. To the point where her choosing to interact with anyone is greeted with either shock and/or fear.

Saya from Peacemaker Kurogane, though her being shy might also have something to do with the fact that she's mute and can't say anything, even if she wanted to.

Miki Kaoru from Revolutionary Girl Utena is a male example, being a gender-switched Expy of Ami Mizuno down to the same voice actress. Interestingly enough, his twin sister Kozue does not fit this trope.

Ami Mizuno from Sailor Moon is probably the best known example of this trope. She meets many of the trope's key traits. Upon her introduction, she's the aloof genius girl rumored to have an IQ of 300 (and is, in fact, at the top of the Rankings in exams for the entire country). Upon actually revealing her character, it's also revealed she's not aloof, just shy, and because she's so smart, other people stay away from her instead of the other way around. The live-action has her come out of her shell by being befriended by Usagi and the others as a plot point. The fact that she has powers over water is just icing on the cake. She's also sort of paired up with the fiery (in more ways than one) Rei due to the fact that Rei is the 3rd member to join the team and the two are Usagi's only reliable allies until Jupiter joins the team about 10 episodes later.

R season: first, in Bertier's Heel–Face Turn episode, the sponsor of a chess tournament speaks to Ami and notes how she used to be alone all the time, but now has made so many friends. Later, a Monster of the Week exploits Ami's secret insecurities to first frame her for cheating at exams (something that's serious business for her since she's the smartest girl in Japan), then try mind raping and brainwashing her into attacking her teammates. Finally, the R movie has her recalling how other kids used to trash talk her behind her back, thinking she was an Insufferable Genius - until Usagi came along and forced her out of her shell.

In S, Ami is greatly upset at the prospect of being seen only as The Smart Guy of the group and needs Mamoru, Michiru, and Usagi's support to try to dispel it...and she becomes the target of the Monster of the Week, which is after Ami's Pure Heart Crystal. In a Tear Jerker scene, when the monster mocks Ami's loneliness, Usagi stands up for her and tearfully declares how important Ami is for her.

In Stars, during her and Haruka's team-up, Ami remembers how, as a little girl, she wanted to play basketball, but the girls didn't dare to ask her join the team since she had too much to do, leaving her alone and sad. In a subversion, Ami later recalls how she became The Strategist of the team, which lets her find the Heroic Resolve to deliver the strategy that lets her and Haruka/Uranus win the fight.

Averted with Smug Snake Cyprine from the S season (who still pretended to be one) and with Palla Palla from Super S, who was a very childish Genius Ditz.

Shin from Saint Beast is a male example being the intelligent and aloof-but-nice type.

Mizore, the oboe player in Sound! Euphonium, is so shy that she comes off as an Emotionless Girl and seems to have only one friend at a time. Her blue hair is all the more salient given that the vast majority of the characters in the show have some shade of black or brown hair.

In The Incredibles, Violet is the only one in her family with black hair with plenty of blue highlights, and she's also the only one who is shy.

Inside Out has, naturally, Sadness, who is blue all over, always apologizing, and a bookworm, since Joy never allows her to do anything besides study the brain manuals. Averted by Joy, who also has blue hair, but is the complete opposite of Sadness.

Video Games

Pieda in Baten Kaitos Origins is an example of the "smart and friendly" variant, thus fitting this trope perfectly despite not really being that shy, except, arguably, by comparison to her True Companions.

The White Magician Girl Ninian, however, plays this almost perfectly straight. Her hair is more cyan than properly blue, but she is very humble and kind and has quite the problems interacting with people.

Played a little straighter with a male: Seliph from Genealogy of the Holy War is quite the badass fighter, but is also extremely humble as a person and kinda scared of the prospect of being The Chosen One at the beginning.

Boy!Morgan mayfit in if he's fathered by either Chrom, Virion, Priam, or a blue haired second generation male, though.

If a blue-haired Avatar has daughters, only Noire will be a straightforward example. Though Yarne could potentially be a Rare Male Example, even if he only has a blue streak on his fur.

Noire and Yarne might fit if either is fathered by Virion, too.

A downplayed example exists in Inigo if he's fathered by Virion, a blue haired Avatar, or Chrom: his flirtatious nature is exaggerated to hide his own shy insecurities, and to keep the others from losing morale. He was apparently very shy and timid as a child and when asked by his equally shy mother for advice, she advised him to talk to women to become braver. He took that a little too far. He's still very shy when it comes to his dancing though.

Downplayed with Dizzy from the Guilty Gear series. While she is relatively uncomfortable hanging around people, it's more due to the fact that she's a Gear and a wanted woman than anything else. When she isn't worrying too much about that she's been shown to be quite personable, such as with the Jellyfish Pirates and with her eventual husband Ky.

Harvest Moon games are pretty much guaranteed to have one of these, especially "classic" ones:

Despite her hair color bordering on being black, Naoto Shirogane of Persona 4 is this as well, albeit very covertly. The Moe factor of her shyness combined with the female vote was enough to earn her the winning spot in the school's beauty pageant, despite the fact that she ditched right before the swimsuit portion!

HuniePop has Nikki, an introverted retro gamer who initially uses outward hostility as a defense mechanism, but gets over it quickly. She remains very shy and somewhat nervous in social situations throughout the game. Through her dialogue options, she does mention her hair is dyed though. HunieCam Studio describes her as a 'shy nerd girl' and her clothing choices are more conservative than the rest of the cam girls.

Issei Ryudo in Fate/stay night is a male example. He's blue-haired, the most rational of the normal characters, and while almost all of his appearances are with his best friend, Shirou Emiya, he's said to be very shy.

Averted with Shizune Hakamichi from Katawa Shoujo, who is blunt and outspoken — despite being deafmute. Still worth noting, though, as when they're introduced, Hisao thinks she's one of these until she "opens her mouth," so to speak. The most shy girl in the cast, Hanako Ikezawa, has purple hair.

Mio from Little Busters! is a very quiet, soft-spoken girl with an emotionless personality who is almost always found sitting and reading on her own at the back of the school before Riki comes across her. He even notes at one point that, in complete contrast to him who defines himself by his Childhood Friends, she seems to long to be truly alone, and her presence is so low that people often seem to forget she even exists. Her route provides an explanation for all of this.

Webcomics

Araceli of Hazard's Wake is very much this, though the shyness probably comes from being locked in a tower for most of her life.

Tedd Verres in El Goonish Shive is a perfect male version of this, although it's purple hair instead of blue. He was especially shy during his younger years, though he has opened up somewhat since then. He is the smartest of the group and is constantly inventing or experimenting on stuff. And, for bonus points, he frequently transforms himself into a girl for fun.

Emily McArthur in Misfile is this to some degree. She has blue hair and is very intelligent, having already been accepted to Harvard before two years of her life were erased. She is only a little shy and it's not a large facet of her personality, but she definitely pairs well with Ash.

Mecha Maid from Spinnerette, while outgoing in her superhero guise, is extremely reserved outside of it. It doesn't help that she is physically incapable of being very expressive without her suit. She is a genius researcher and inventor, and her superhero wig is purple.

Kimiko Ross in Dresden Codak fits this trope to a T. She is easily one of the smartest people in an already highly advanced world, and is extremely logic-driven. She is constantly inventing crazy advanced technology, and even created several advanced prostheses for herself after getting half her body blown up. On top of that, she is very socially handicapped when it comes to new relationships, acting very clumsy and shy around boys she is interested in. And her hair is bluish black.

Jolene “Brooksie” Brooks of Between Failures. From the cast page: She is shy, yet can be outgoing once she gets comfortable with her surroundings.

Western Animation

Stormer from Jem is one of the two blue haired characters (the other being Aja, who doesn't count at all). She's the Token Good Teammate of The Misfits. Stormer is docile and a bit of a doormat, though Character Development helps her gain more confidence.

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